BASQUES HOLD OUT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 106, 21 May 1937, Page 5

BASQUES HOLD OUT

Defences Still Intact (Received 21, 8.45 a.m.) BILBAO, May 20. Despite the pragress of the robel troops on the fiftieth day of fighting m puahing the Basques four miles and capturing Jeta, the insnrgents still failed to make contact with any pojnts on Bilbao's inner ring of defence. Tho rebels' artillexy and aircraft are pounding' away at Munguia, but the Basque army is still intact and is strongly defending this vital objective with sev«i eral battalions, supported by tanks, against the onslaughts of Moors and Spanish Foreign Legionairies. Amorevieta is still under Basque gunfire. Bebel 'planes bombed Gladacano, kxlling ten civilians. They also bonvbed the aeaport of Plencia and other villges. A Valeneia dispatph says that insnrSent aeroplanes in the courge of a twoour chase, bombed and set on fire the Spanish marchant ship Legazpi near Port Benicasim, Jrilling one and injuring eight. Dr. Spade, a woman hospital worker, Mrs. Davidson, a wounded volunteer and Arthur Evans, all of whom are British, put jout in rowboats from the shore and succoured the suiierers, while local fishermen extinguished the fire. Government 'planea .drove off the raiders.